Students

Week 1

The first week of the Summer Program focused
on inventory, analysis, and visioning for the Sausalito waterfront.
Students were working as a group, the students will examine the
area’s natural and man-made systems to understand the dynamic
forces that shape the Sausalito waterfront (approximately 100
acres). These systems include historic, socio-economic/cultural,
transportation, land use, topographic form & building massing,
hydrologic, ecological, and climate (including sea level rise). The end
result will be an analytical framework that considers stakeholder
concerns and documents systemic forces, and provides a base of
information for each student to generate an initial reaction/vision
for the site’s next 100 years

Week 2: Urban Design

RIDGES AND VALLEYS
Kate’s strategy to address the inevitable issue
of sea level rise in Sausalito is based on the
main landscape typology of the region: ridges
and valleys. She proposed extending the
natural, existing ridgelines of the Sausalito
hills down and across the site through the
design of two land bridges. Acting as social and
ecological corridors, these land bridges would
effectively capture and redirect the currently
disconnected flows to, from, and through the
site – reconnecting the hills with the Bay, and
Sausalito with its waterfront. Additionally,
the urban fabric of the proposed mixed-use,
valley community would be adaptable, built to
succumb to rising water levels and designed to
remain functional even when inundated.

Week 3: SCI-ART Discovery Center

LAND BRIDGE PARK
In the urban design phase of the project, Kate
identified the defining landscape features of
the region, ridges and valleys, and proposed
extending the existing ridgelines down to
the waterfront to reconnect Sausalito with
its waterfront. In this site scale phase, Kate
chose to focus on the design of the land
bridge. Sausalito has an obvious shortage of
public waterfront parks and open spaces. Kate
proposed transforming the land bridge into a
programmatic park to attract both locals and
visitors. In addition to creating a social corridor,
drawing people from both Bridgeway and the
hills, the land bridge houses a Science-Art
Center, a new attraction to Sausalito’s locals
and tourists.

Week 4: Object Design

Bridge Design
For the detail design phase of the
project, Kate tackled the construction
of the land bridge. The challenge was to
design a bridge that effectively continued
the landscape ridge typology across
Bridgeway Blvd and to the landform park
without literally creating a bridge made of
land. With this goal in mind, she designed
a poetic, architectural bridge in an effort
ease the connection and link between
Sausalito’s hills and its waterfront, while
also creating an iconic landmark for the
city. In addition to the material construction
of the bridge, Kate’s focus was on the
experience of crossing the bridge, as well
as the different experiences of traveling
to and from the hills and the waterfront.

Kate Hayes

“Landscape architecture is my passion. Influenced by my suburban upbringing and my interdisciplinary science background, I am fascinated with the ecological, cultural, and social regenerative qualities of this design discipline. With a B.S. in Earth Systems – a major focused on human interactions with our natural and built environments – I have approached landscape architecture from a systems perspective. My eclectic work experience – from working at a sustainable buildings company to coaching high school rowing – and travel abroad have also been influential in my career path. Having completed my first of three years of graduate school at University of Virginia, I find that I am drawn to the particularities of site, creating spaces that bring out natural processes and use geology as a fundamental underlying structure or armature. As geology operates on a regional scale, I am fascinated with bringing its science and its structure down to the room and human scales.”